Identification of Coxiella burnetii genotypes in Croatia using multi-locus VNTR analysis

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 173, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 340-347

  Račić, Ivana ^a   Špičić, Silvio ^a   Galov, Ana ^b   Duvnjak, Sanja ^a   Zdelar Tuk, Maja ^a   Vujnović, Anja ^a   Habrun, Boris ^a   Cvetnić, Željko ^a  

^a CROATIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Coxiella burnetii; Croatia; Genotyping; MLVA; Q fever

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; CROATIA; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MULTI LOCUS VARIABLE NUMBER TANDEM REPEAT ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; ANIMAL; BOVINE; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; GOAT; HORSE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; Q FEVER; SHEEP; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COXIELLA BURNETII; CROATIA; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; GOATS; HORSES; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; Q FEVER; SHEEP;

EID: 84908207648     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: 18732542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2014.08.016     Document Type: Article

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